e-news archive
Friday, May 8, 2009
in this issue...
- Topic of the Week: Life After Marquette
- Jobs & Internships! New This Week
- Ask Dot: Still in Search of a Job
- Featured Website: DiversityJobs.com
- Career Resources: MU Career Manager
- Alumni Highlight: Elementary Education & Spanish Language and Literature
- Employer Spotlight: Direct Supply
- Calendar of Career Events
Walk-in/Satellite Hours
Stop by Career Services walk-in hours Monday-Friday from 12-2pm!
FREE Business Cards!
Tired of digging out a pen to scribble down your info???
CSC is now offering FREE business cards to all Marquette Students.
Click here for more information and to fill out the request form.
Got a Job? Let us know!!!
Click here to share your success story and inspire other students!
Don't forget to stop by the Career Services Center to ring the bell!
POWER Lunch: Career Professionals Who Were International F1 Students
Thursday, April 23, 2009
12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
AMU 157
See who is speaking...
Calendar of Events
This calendar includes upcoming on campus recruiting events
and career-related workshops.
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Graduating?
Congratulations on this huge accomplishment! Whether or not you have a plan for the day after graduation, make sure to enjoy Senior Week and Commencement and make the most out of the time you have left at Marquette!
Check out Career Chatter for more on making the most of your last few weeks of college!
Don't Have a Job?
If you are still in the search for a job or making a decision on grad school, make an appointment at the Career Services Center and we can assist you. Otherwise read on to learn more about how to handle "Your First Year as a Professional".
NEW JOBS AND INTERNSHIPS ARE BEING POSTED EVERY DAY on general job search websites as well as MU Career Manager. Continue to network and take advantage of every opportunity that interests you. Remember to have a good attitude and stay positive. Even if you feel desperate and willing to settle, continue to think about how you portray yourself to an employer. Stay strong and enthusiastic about future job prospects.
For more on continuing your job search read this week's "Ask Dot".
New Job?
So you have landed a new job, congratulations! First impressions continue after the interview, so here are valuable tips to help you succeed in your first year as a professional.
- Don’t underestimate the importance of professional appearance. Wardrobe projects self-esteem and professionalism so appropriate dress can lend credibility to you and your position. Check out the Dress for Success Handout for specific tips.
- Maintain your time management skills. Good time management begins with goal setting. This starts with arriving at work on time. Avoid developing a reputation for being late and arrive five minutes early. Spend time at the beginning of each day planning for what you will need to accomplish: 15 minutes of planning can lead to an additional hour of productivity.
- Develop strong interpersonal skills. You learn by listening, so try to talk 20% of the time and listen for 80%. In your first few days, it may help to write down the names of the people you meet so you can address them by name when you see them again. Be sure to smile and greet coworkers when you see them: positive people are more enjoyable to be around.
- Maintain your connections and networking contacts. It is important to keep in touch with people you have connected with or graduated with. You may be able to continue to serve as resources for one another in the future.
- Demonstrate you are ready for more by excelling in your current assignments. It is exciting to start a new job and hopefully you want to jump in right away. Organizations may have a learning curve, so your initial assignments may seem small. This is far from true! These first assignments can help you to learn about projects or systems within an organization, contextualize later assignments and are a GREAT opportunity to demonstrate that you are ready for more. Learning from the “small stuff” can help prepare you to ask meaningful questions and anticipate needs. Demonstrate initiative by volunteering to help as you see opportunities (be sure to check with your supervisor before starting projects outside your existing assignments).
- Manage your money and remember to give back. Learn about your company’s benefits and sign up for your 401(k) as soon as you can. Always pay your bills on time to protect your credit record. Remember to give back to those less fortunate than you as well. A commitment to service and helping others does not end with graduation: be the difference and continue with these priorities in your professional life.
Congratulations again on your new position! If you would like further information on this topic, check out Your First Year as a Professional.
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Looking to gain career-related experience with an internship? Ready to start your job search? View internships and jobs posted recently for Marquette University students. To see even more internships and full-time jobs, register with MU Career Manager.
Check out great training programs, internships and employment opportunities through the Wisconsin Foundation for Independent Colleges.
The Wisconsin Foundation for Independent Colleges, Inc. (WFIC) promotes independent higher education in Wisconsin through innovative partnerships with educational, business, philanthropic and civic partners. WFIC empowers students in their pursuit of higher education, civic engagement and career exploration.
WFIC works with college, business, and civic leaders to achieve our mission and create innovative workforce solutions.
WFIC is market driven and pro-active in providing relevant career and workforce partnerships for high school graduates and college students: College-to-Work Internships, Nonprofit Capacity-Building, and The Wisconsin Insurance Initiative.
http://www.wficweb.org/index.html
Volunteer Abroad With Cross-Cultural Solutions!
Cross-Cultural Solutions is a non-profit organization that enables volunteers to make a meaningful contribution to the community by working side-by-side with local people, while gaining a new perspective and insight into the culture and themselves. The volunteer work is with carefully selected Partner Programs, all of which are dynamic and inspiring community-led initiatives. These include orphanages and childcare centers, schools, health clinics and hospitals, homes for the elderly, centers for people with disabilities, and other community organizations. Volunteers enjoy the flexibility of choosing from 12 countries, start dates year-round and programs from 1-12 weeks long. CCS offers international volunteer programs in Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Morocco, Peru, Russia, South Africa, Tanzania, and Thailand.
Cross-Cultural Solutions is a recognized leader in the field of international volunteering, founded in 1995. CCS has a worldwide staff of over 200 people, and has administrative offices located in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. We are in Special Consultative Status with the United Nations, and have been profiled in more than 500 news outlets.
For more information on Cross-Cultural Solutions, visit our website at
http://www.crossculturalsolutions.org
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Dear Dot,
I am graduating in about a month now and still haven't found a job. I have had a few interview but don't know what else I can do. Please help!
Ben H.
Read Dot's advice
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www.diversityjobs.com
DiversityJobs.com is a high traffic job board ranking #1 on Google, Yahoo and MSN for the search term “diversity jobs”. This gives our jobs excellent exposure through the top organic search tools on the internet.
DiversityJobs.com’s commitment to diversity goes beyond connecting strong diversity candidates with employers -- we also promote diversity education and inclusion in the workplace through our Workplace Diversity Blog. Since 2006 we have been covering breaking news and current information on diversity issues.
Our polls and forum discussions also allow our users to vote on diversity issues and discuss workplace diversity challenges. We apply the highest standards of quality to ensure that all of our content is current and from reliable, expert sources who understand the challenges of workplace diversity. DiversityJobs.com is dedicated to educating visitors on diversity issues and to promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
We feel our mission is to empower African Americans, Women, Hispanics, Persons with Disabilities, Asian Americans, Native Americans, members of the LGBT community, and other diversity groups with current jobs from employers dedicated to a diverse workforce.
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***Register for MU Career Manager today!***
Are you interested in reviewing job and internship postings and taking part in on-campus interviews for internships, co-ops, and full-time opportunities? If so, it is time for you to sign up with MU Career Manager!
Creating an account is easy – just visit the Career Services Center website and click the MU Career Manager link in the large green box on the right side of the screen. You will create a personal profile and upload a resume in this process.
Your account will be temporarily placed in a holding bin after you submit your resume. Each day a career counselor reviews and offers feedback on resume submissions. You will be granted full access to MU Career Manager after your resume has been approved by a member of the Career Services Center staff.
For more information on the on-campus recruiting program and MU Career Manager, you are welcome to contact the Career Services Center at 414.288.7423 or via e-mail at career.services@marquette.edu
New Feature on MU CAREER MANAGER!
After you do a search, you can create a new job agent, which is now separate from the saved search feature. The job agent will email you once a job is posted that meets your criteria.
Job Agents - There have been a number of changes to the job agents to make them both more interactive, more intuitive and more accessible:
a. The function for creating a job agent as a student has now been separated out from Save Search to its own function called Create Job Agent on the job search screen. This should make this function more accessible and visible to students.
b. Accessing previously created job agents has been separated out from Saved Searches to its own tab in student activity. This provides an easier place to see existing job agents and allow for providing more intuitive functionality for managing them. It also allows them to be accessible to administrators in the student's activity section.
c. A Disable/Enable function was added to job agents to allow a student to disable a job agent so they would no longer receive the email for it without removing the job agent completely. This way they could easily re-enable it at a later date if it became applicable to them again.
d. The content of the job agent email was changed. It previously included basic data about the new/update jobs matching the agent and just a link to login to the site. This was difficult for students though because to actually interact with any of those job they then had to login and individually search for those jobs or run the saved search. Now, the email contains the number of new/updated jobs for each agent and a link which the student can click on that will take them to the site, let them login and immediately take them to the job results matching that agent, which should make it much easier for students to interact with jobs they have been notified about through an agent. The email also contains a link where a student can disable a job agent directly from the email if they no longer wish to receive it. Lastly, this change from presenting actual job data in the email to a count and a more interactive link should prevent situations in which a student looks at an agent email but by the time they go into the system to look at the jobs the job has perhaps already expired or changed screening criteria and they are confused as to why they can no longer see that job.
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Jane Sladky Valley, Elementary Education & Spanish Language and Literature, 2006.
Learn more about the success and career path of this Marquette Graduate.
Contact Jane at jane.sladky@minnetonka.k12.mn.us.
Are you interested in contacting other alumni for career advice?
Check out MU Connect: Career Alumni Network.
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Headquartered in Milwaukee, Direct Supply is the nation’s leading supplier of equipment and electronic commerce systems to the healthcare profession. Every day, in everything they do, they are committed to improving the way healthcare equipment and services are delivered to millions of Americans.
Direct Supply is a fast-growing, innovative company that’s 100% employee owned. The company is built on the principles of treating employees as partners, embracing diversity, providing outrageous customer service, and maintaining a commitment to quality, excellence and integrity.
Since 1985, they’ve assembled one of the brightest, hardest working teams in America. And because of their continual growth, they are currently looking for a variety of talented individuals to join their team. From sales and customer service to software engineering and marketing, they have many exciting opportunities for ambitious, self-motivated people like you.
For more information please visit: www.directsupplycareers.com.
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Spreenkler is hosting weekly social media workshops for students to introduce them to social and professional networking sites. Explore the most cutting edge ways you can use social media to help increase your self-brand through social media self-marketing and networking.
Attend New Age Networking presented by Spreenkler
When: Every Friday, starting March 13th, 2009, 1pm - 2pm & 2pm - 4pm
Location: Bucketworks, 1340 N 6th St, Milwaukee, 53212
Calendar of Events
This calendar includes upcoming on campus recruiting events
and career-related workshops.
Upcoming Career Fairs
This calendar includes upcoming Marquette career fairs,
off-site career fairs, and e-fairs.
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